Portland's in Vogue

PDX makes every top ten green list ever compiled. We're getting rather -- yawn -- used to the idea. But Portland making the pages of Vogue it still is rare enough to warrant mention.

OK, so it was in reference to biking. A regular article called View included a bit about how model Agness Deyn bicycled between New York City shows during fashion week and other models followed suit in Paris. (Those Parisians are always copying us!) Pedaling around New York City is a bit like kicking a soccer on I-84, but bless her skinny little model heart.
The article mentions Portland, Oregon as a good bike city, the Ace Hotel for its loaner bikes and quotes Elizabeth Dye of the English Dept. store who rides a bike wearing a clear vinyl rain coat of her own design that offers the benefit that "you can see the dresses I wear beneath it."

Cute, eh?

Model Agness Deyn from a website called flickr.com

Ross Hamilton A vintage print dress by Elizabeth Dye that ran in The Oregonian a couple years ago still looks gorgeous

The prize patrol is out. Just like Vogue magazine, we get swag. Unlike Vogue magazine staff, we can't keep it. But we can offer it to you. And you can give this one to your dad, husband, boyfriend. Eddie Bouwer sent a really sharp looking knit shirt in charcoal gray with lighter gray collar. It's quite handsome. Post a couple lines about why PDX is vogue. Keep checking back and reading to see if you're post is a winner.

From Eddie Bauer onlineThe prize looks like this only it doesn't seem to have the stripe on it. Retails for about $50 and is very handsome